Sending and Receiving E-Mail in Chinese With MyRealBox (Web)

MyRealBox (Web) as Sending E-mail Client:

MyRealBox (Web) cannot send Chinese messages. If you choose Chinese as the input language via the language button/bar, Chinese will appear correctly in the message box. However, the message cannot be read or decoded by the recipient regardless of what e-mail client he/she used.
 
MyRealBox (Web) as Receiving E-mail Client:

MyRealBox can read 8 out of 13 sending formats, including all 3 Outlook formats, all Outlook Express formats except plain/as is, Netscape Mail, and Hotmail with Chinese (but not English) as preferred language. If the message does not appear correctly at first, manually selecting the encoding format from the view/encoding submenu does not help.
Sending E-Mail Client
MyRealBox as Receiving E-Mail Client
Hotmail  

    English as Preferred Language

cannot read

    Chinese as Preferred Language

can read

Netscape Mail 7.0

can read

OperaMail

cannot read

Outlook Express 6.0:  

    HTML/Unicode

can read

    HTML/As Is

can read

    Plain/Unicode

can read

    Plain/As Is

cannot read

Outlook 2002:  

    HTML

can read

    Rich Text

can read

    Plain Text

can read

Outlook Web Access

cannot read

Yahoo Mail

cannot read

Total no. of sending formats correctly decoded by MyRealBox
8

cannot read Message cannot be read or decoded.
can read Message appears correctly as is.
Recommendations:

MyRealBox is not suitable for a user who must write and read Chinese e-mail on a regular basis, and who therefore will want to use such Chinese-compliant software as Outlook Express, Outlook, Hotmail, OperaMail, or Yahoo Mail.

Please email me your comments, suggestions, and corrections.


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With author's permission, republished in CLIEJ.